by T. Scott Randolph

Created on: June 23, 2009   Last Updated: November 18, 2009

While any type of garage will technically serve its purpose, which in theory is protecting your vehicle but is usually is a receptacle for junk.Unless you are using it just to house your vintage 1964 1/2 mustang or a workshop with extremely loud power tools that will irritate your wife, I think that an attached garage is the only way to go.

It serves many if not all of the purposes of the modern garage. Number one, it will keep the weather off of your all important vehicles. That is the theory anyway. For most of us if we are lucky enough to have lets say a two car garage, then we are lucky if we can actually fit one vehicle in it. Most of the space is taken up with a plethora of useless stuff. Whether it is the out of season lawn furniture, or the fleet of lawn care tools that most of us will never use. I mean lets face it. Our yards encompass less than 1/4 of an acre, yet we have more power tool than the maintenance crew for Wrigley Field. Seriously, when is the last time you actually used that gas powered edger? Do you even have a garden to use that $1500 Troy Built tiller? That is with out even including all the things that your wife told you to do something with, which in your mind translated to put it in the garage. Us being men (for those of us that are) we don't think ahead enough to realize eventually we will have to clean out all of that mess. It would have been easier to listen to your wife and throw it away (actually if we listened to our wives more often, life would be much easier).

Let's switch over to never never land. You know, that mythical place where the garage is used for what it is supposed to be used for. It will keep your car snow free in the winter, and the seats won't be hot enough to sear the skin off the back of your legs. Even if you are not lucky enough to have a remote start, you can run out to the garage and start your car (and not worry about it disappearing), turn on the heater or A/C which ever the case may be at the time. This way when you leave for work with your coffee, cellphone,briefcase, and whatever else you remembered on the way out. your car is warm. More importantly, since you are without a doubt late, the engine is already warmed up and the windows won't be fogged up.

Beyond the conveniences of it being attached, there is one other attribute that I feel is the most important. That is safety. Being a male that is 5'11" tall and weighing 185 pounds (not to mention heavily tattooed), I am not so much part of the target

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